Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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synchronize

/ˈsɪŋ.kɹəˌnaɪz/ verb

Forms synchronizes synchronizing synchronized synchronise

  1. verb (intransitive) To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing.
  2. verb (transitive) To cause (video and audio) to play in a coordinated way.
  3. verb (transitive) To set (a clock or watch) to display the same time as another. “We synchronized our watches and agreed to meet at four o'clock precisely.”
  4. verb (computing, ambitransitive) To cause (a set of files, data, or settings) on one computer or device to be (and try to remain) the same as on another.
  5. verb (intransitive, of inanimate entities) To agree, be coordinated with, or complement well.
  6. verb (transitive) To coordinate or combine.

Synonyms

sync synch sync up synchronise contemporize contemporise

Antonyms

desynchronize

Etymology

From Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō), equivalent to syn- + chrono- + -ize.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
  2. verb To assign to the same date or period of time; as, to synchronize two events of Greek and Roman history. "Josephus synchronizes Nisan with the Egyptian Pharmus." W. L. Bevan.
  3. verb To cause to agree in time; as, to synchronize the movements of different machines; to synchronize clocks.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “synchronize”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details